posted April 14, 2013 08:01 PM            

Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.

posted April 14, 2013 08:04 PM            

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posted April 14, 2013 08:18 PM            

Crystals are alive and conscious. Looking at the periodic table of the elements; carbon is the sixth element, which is associated with ll organic chemistry and everything that is normally considered to be alive. But directly below it, one octave below, is the element of silicon, the primary element of quartz crystal and 80% of the Earth's crust.

In the 50's, scientist discovered that silicon and carbon displayed the same exact principles of life. Carbon and Silicone are the only two elements known that create life.

Science has found life-forms deep in the ocean that are alive, conscious, and reproductive, whose bodies are made up of 100% silicon, with no carbon whatsoever.

Understand, crystals are aware of far more than what we humans give them credit for. Marcel Vogel, a world-renowned scientist who holds over 200 patents, including one for the floppy disk, discovered that crystals are able to receive and send both human thoughts and emotions. It makes since when you realize that the first radio in the world was a "crystal set". You simply placed a quartz crystal on a table, touched a wire to the crystal somewhere on it and you could hear the radio signal through the speakers. The crystal was picking up the electromagnetic signal in the radio band of frequencies.

Both human thoughts are also found in the electromagnetic range of frequencies. Thoughts are very very long wavelengths compared to radio waves, but except for the length of their wavelengths, they are exactly the same. So why wouldn't a crystal be able to pick up your thoughts?

Computers are nothing but crystals, and without crystals, computers would not exist. it is the living nature of a crystal that allows computers to do what they do. Natural crystals can hold a 'program', which means a thought pattern, and continue to replay that thought pattern for eternity unless someone erases the program. A properly programmed crystal can change and influence vast area in the human world.

posted April 14, 2013 08:28 PM            

By James Donahue

A few years back my wife and I acquired a large and beautiful crystal of many shapes. It projected various colors, and at times was so clear you could look into it and observe strange images. On other days the crystal became murky and even turned grey. It was always changing.

We had this crystal when we lived for a while with a Navajo medicine man, Raymond Begay and his wife. These people were fascinated by this crystal. Raymond would stare into it and say that the crystal told him stories of its past.

We discovered that the crystal would change color depending on its environment. When placed in a dish of sea salt it seemed to regain its clarity. The natives told us to place it out of doors under a full moon to cleanse it of unwanted energies. I never knew if this was true or not.

Because of the way this crystal behaved, and because it is known that crystals actually grow if left in the ground or in caves over time, it occurred to me that they appear to be alive. Obviously other folks have had the same thought.

I found a web site that attempted to glean an answer to this question. The most common response was that they are not alive. The idea was that living creatures must be capable of reproduction, access food for energy and interact with the surroundings to improve its situation.

But what is to say that a crystal does not do all of these things? That crystals grow, and sometimes parts of them break off and become new growing crystals suggest that they not only gain sustenance from the earth for growth, but can reproduce. That they do this while in their natural environment in the earth suggests that they surely interact with their surroundings.

The only difference is that crystals take a very long time to accomplish all of this. They appear to us to be no more than glistening types of hard crystalline material. But they are very ancient. They are comprised of atoms that are filled with energy, just like our bodies are. And they will someday die when the Mother Earth ends her existence in this solar system.

Nearly all aboriginal tribes in the world not only believe crystals are alive, they believe the Mother Earth is a sentient being and goddess from whom we all emerged and from where we gain all sustenance for life. When you think about it, how can we argue with that?

An article by Mary Kurus states that “crystals come from within Mother earth. They are alive and intelligent, having the intelligence of nature within every cell of their beings.”

Drunvalo Melchizedek, in his two-volume book The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, wrote that he not only believes crystals are alive, but that they are conscious he has successfully communicated with them. He also believes crystals can affect people they come in contact with in a variety of ways.

Melchizedek offered a personal story of being challenged to prove his belief by a class he was teaching in San Francisco. He said he gave everyone in the class a pencil and paper, then produced a crystal that no one in the class had ever seen. He then instructed each of an estimated 30 class members to place the crystal on their forehead and ask “Where are you from?” then pass it on to the next person.